About the Author

Gary Edward Holcomb is associate professor of English at Emporia State University in Kansas. He is currently editing Claude McKay's unpublished work, Romance in Marseilles, for publication.

Reviews

An original book on a neglected figure of the Harlem Renaissance... Holcomb is the first scholar to offer a coherent account of the different aspects of McKay's career and life without treating them as contradictions. - John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California